Romania has started building the largest NATO military base in Europe, which will be able to house 10,000 military personnel and their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The base is being built in Constanta, at the already existing 57th air base of the Romanian Air Force “Mihail Kogalniceanu”, and its construction cost is estimated at 2.5 billion euros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New runways, aircraft hangars, as well as schools, shops and a hospital are expected to be created at the base.<\/p>\n\n\n
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In 2040<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The base is estimated to be ready and fully operational in 2040. Work has already begun in the Mihail Kogalniceanu settlement to expand the existing military complex, which after the work will spread over an area of approximately 7,000 acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the existing buildings, new runways will be created for the fighters, a new control tower will be built, there will be a new radio navigation system and a flight simulator. In addition, there will be administrative and social buildings, such as schools and kindergartens, shops, restaurants, a cinema and a hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u03a4he projects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Work has already begun on the southern part of the complex, where access roads and the electrical network are being built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to information, the Kogalniceanu complex will become the largest NATO military base in Europe. The decision to expand the 57th Romanian Air Base “Mihail Kogalniceanu” was taken against the background of the war that has been raging for the past two years in Ukraine, near the Romanian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US military has been using the Mihail Kogalniceanu base since 1999 and currently houses elements of the US 101st Airborne Division as well as allied fighter jets that assist the Romanian Air Force in aerial policing missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warnings that a direct conflict between Russia and NATO would mean the world would be one step closer to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[825,3],"tags":[5278,3225,58,1156,1976,3395,3340],"class_list":["post-17823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-geopolitical","category-geopolitical","tag-military-base","tag-romania","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-3340"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17826,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823\/revisions\/17826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}